Dr Ryan is a board certified family medicine physician. She grew up in Ireland and graduated from Trinity College Dublin Medical School in 1999. After working in primary care in Ireland for a few years, she moved to the western suburbs of Chicago where she completed family medicine residency at Adventist La Grange Memorial hospital and spent 8 years in private insurance-based practice before starting Cara Direct Care.  Dr Ryan is also affiliated with Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her roles include course director, lecturer and preceptor of medical students. Dr Ryan spends her free time playing Irish music on the concertina and fiddle, with her husband and four children who are also musicians. Other hobbies include running and reading.